Re: [Dev-luatex] And now for something completely different...

David Kastrup writes:

luigi scarso writes:

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On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 5:37 PM, David Kastrup wrote:

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So this does not really save us from doing our own PDF backend eventually (it's not like Cairo's imaging model would not match that of PostScript and PDF pretty well anyway). But looking at that file list, I thought it was worth asking.

All the best

Pehaps http://mupdf.com/

mutool has a "draw" command :

Well, we do all the font handling and whatever else already in our PostScript backend (which then uses ps2pdf in case a PDF is desired), so it does not seem like we are going to win a lot.

by using yet another tool/backend/whatever for PDF generation. -- David Kastrup